Common Project Management Challenges - Slide 4

Project teams usually have more demand for projects than they have team members or resources to execute the projects. Project managers and resource managers using desktop applications have a challenging time being able to see how much work each resource has across all projects. Teams without a centralized project management solution often use an Excel spreadsheet to manage workloads and find that this is quite a cumbersome exercise.

A Web-based project management solution has the advantage of storing all projects, all resources and their task assignments in one centralized place. A project management solution should be able to drill down to the specifics projects and tasks to show what is causing over allocation.

Cynthia West, Vice President at Project Insight, and her team speak with project managers, directors of operations, vice presidents of professional services, chief financial officers, and other project team members every day. They hear familiar stories repeatedly and have identified some trends, or commonalities, that regularly affect project management success. This slideshow highlights five of the most common project management challenges identified by Project Insight and ways Web-based project management software may be able to help.